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In a deeply disturbing incident that has left a family traumatised, relatives of a 94-year-old woman who passed away in November 2025 arrived at a mortuary in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, to retrieve her body for burial — only to be given a different corpse.

According to the family, when they went to dress their grandmother’s body, the mortuary attendant brought out another body entirely. The family immediately rejected it, sparking chaos at the scene. The attendant responsible allegedly took off and is now on the run.

In a viral video, a distraught granddaughter in a yellow top could be seen crying out in pain and anger:
“My grandmother’s corpse is missing! They gave us another dead body… the attendant has run away!”

Police were called in, but instead of focusing on the missing remains, the family claims officers tried to arrest them. The burial has been disrupted as the family searches for answers.

How does a corpse disappear from a mortuary just days before burial? This raises serious questions about the management of mortuaries in the country. The matter is reportedly now under police investigation.
May the soul of the departed find peace, and may this family get the justice and closure they desperately need.

This country continues to shock us daily. Even in death, there’s no rest.

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e miss abi ma embalming cause am. dead body dey change u no go know am again oh. my gradma own when i see am, e dey still haunt me say na the person i dey always play with i dey see wey don black, with cotton inside nose, ears, body come dry like crayfish

Time to arrest mortuary operators

Dsame thing happened to me at my work place when I was a mortician. But I'm currently dealing with millions of naira. God did


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Wild things happening in Dave Umahi City these days

Due to wrong identification, it must have been mistakenly swapped with another corpse.

Shey una dey see and hear now.. abi na Tinubu still cause this one?

How did you handle the case and what was the reason for the mix-up

Sonofgod1990:
Dsame thing happened when I was a mortician

In Nigeria even they dead are not allowed to rest....'double wahala for dead bodi'.

Sonofgod1990:
Dsame thing happened to me at my work place when I was a mortician. But I'm currently dealing with millions of naira. God did


Congratulations once again to arsenal for them winning the champions League

reduce daily abuse of cana

WorkTheTalk:
It must have been mistakenly swapped with another corpse.

It's a constant occurrences, especially when the corpse stayed a long time in the mogue.

A periodic check on your corpse would help prevent such occurrences.

To be honest, I am not a fan of preservation of the dead

Bury them as soon as they die

Let the dead have some dignity

There was a story of a family that had to go exhume the dead they buried as the morticians later came to tell them that they were given the wrong corpse

Once all that preservation is done and the corpse left for a long time, they become unrecognizable and you will take whatever resemble your person that they give to you.

Maybe the morticians mistakenly switched the dead bodies.

Funny but true, some people go just leave corpse for mortuary without looking bad until they are ready for burial.

Eba50:
e miss abi ma embalming cause am. dead body dey change u no go know am again oh. my gradma own when i see am, e dey still haunt me say na the person i dey always play with i dey see wey don black, with cotton inside nose, ears, body come dry like crayfish

Uno lie. The looks and height dey dey somehow. Everything go don shrink finish. Na why I no dey like to go look at corpses during wake-keeping coz the look go make you dey have some doubt.

Undisputed147:
Shey una dey see and hear now.. abi na Tinubu still cause this one?

Yes, ba Tinubu hunger mek dem sell the corpse

Eraddray:
How did you handle the case and what was the reason for the mix-up

Nah mad person you quote ooo

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Hmmmm. This is something PHYSICAL abeg. Let’s not add spirituality to this “ Sam Sam “

Undisputed147:
Shey una dey see and hear now.. abi na Tinubu still cause this one?

The one that Tinubu has caused and is still causing is nowhere to be compared to this small thing which you your self know.

If you see any lazy youth that still support dis useless government make you check am well the person is still receiving 5k monthly from the useless Nigeria government

This is funny but not a joke.
Heads should roll

Eraddray:
How did you handle the case and what was the reason for the mix-up

When the case arised I Japa enter Ghana then from Ghana I enter Portugal. Na letter I Heard that they have settled with the Dead body people

Won ti ji oku baba 94 years old gbe, won fe lo fi se oogun owo....

Pootle:
reduce daily abuse of cana

What is Cana.


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Sometimes I wonder if the end of this world will start here in nigeria the things u read and see online in this hopeless country is just unbelievable nigerians are ready to go to any length possible to acquire wealth and political power.

They probably abandoned the body in the mortuary for too long, hence the situation

Undisputed147:
Shey una dey see and hear now.. abi na Tinubu still cause this one?

Tinubu puppet.... We see you, all this bad policies he has made that is making nigerians cry daily, you are not seeing it, this is how stupid you are, suffering and smiling, how much do you buy gas, fuel, food?

Sonofgod1990:
When the case arised I Japa enter Ghana then from Ghana I enter Portugal. Na letter I Heard that they have settled with the Dead body people

So another person dead body was mistakenly given to another people, or the dead body was sold by the handlers? What exactly was the case in your own?

I see no benefits in taking death bodies to mortuary.

Dead bodies should be buried 24 hours after death.

Gotocourt:
Time to arrest mortuary operators

Gbam

Stolen not vanished

Some people sef